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At present, iSALE is not fully open source. It is distributed on a case-by-case basis to academic users in the impact community, strictly for non-commercial use. Scientists interested in using or developing iSALE may apply to use iSALE by email (to isale at imperial.ac.uk), providing the following information.

iSALE accounts are for use only by the registered account holder; redistribution of the code in any part or form is not permitted.

iSALE comes with absolutely no warranty and no guarantee of support

Failure to comply with any of these terms will result in withdrawal of iSALE access.

Please note: Access to the three-dimensional variant "iSALE-3D" is currently restricted to experienced iSALE-2D users who already contributed to the improvement of iSALE (developments, bug-reports, supporting other users)

All users of iSALE are kindly asked to acknowledge the developers of iSALE in any publication (peer-reviewed or otherwise) as a courtesy for the time and effort spent developing and supporting iSALE. Key developers should be named in person.

We gratefully acknowledge the developers of iSALE-3D, including Dirk Elbeshausen, Kai Wünnemann and Gareth Collins.

Where specific modifications have been made by developers for the user's application, it may also be appropriate for an iSALE developer to be named as co-author of any publication resulting from the use of iSALE. Please discuss such matters with the developer that has helped you with your application.

Due to the long history of iSALE model development and the long list of developers who have made substantial contributions to the functionality of iSALE, we ask that a (very) brief history of iSALE-2D or iSALE-3D is included when describing iSALE in the method section of any manuscript.

In this work we use the iSALE-3D shock physics code (Elbeshausen et al., 2009; Elbeshausen and Wünnemann, 2011). This code uses a solver as described in Hirt et al., 1974. The development history of iSALE-3D is described in Elbeshausen et al., 2009. This code includes a strength model (Collins et al., 2004, Melosh et al., 1992; Ivanov et al., 1997) and a porosity compaction model (Wünnemann et al., 2006; Collins et al., 2011).

A shorter description, appropriate for conference abstracts should still include all key references.

In this work we use the iSALE-3D shock physics code (Elbeshausen et al., 2009; Elbeshausen and Wünnemann, 2011).

In future, we hope that a single authoratitive reference for iSALE will be published, describing all key developments, but until this time we ask users to kindly respect the need for adequate description of iSALE in published works.

Since the release of iSALE-Dellen (6/7/2016), two stable versions of iSALE are in use (the previous version was called iSALE-Chicxulub). For this reason, we ask that authors indicate the version of iSALE used in published works (iSALE-Chicxulub or iSALE-Dellen). We have also published the iSALE-Dellen manual on figshare (Collins et al., 201615), which can be cited in addition to the references above when describing iSALE-Dellen in scientific articles.